Bradley.Basso and Lucio Orsoni
Eclectic alliance: Lucio Orsoni and us
Autonomous mosaic art work
An added association with the Venetian mosaic artist Lucio Orsoni also provides them with a direct link to complimentary work in that medium.
Lucio Orsoni has an extraordinary advantage that he shares with hardly any other mosaic artists. Born in Venice with all the colours of mosaics practically in his blood, he grew up as a member of a dynasty, not of mosaic artists or artisans but of manufacturers of mosaic materials, indeed the finest and noblest available in the world. In 1881 his great-grandfather, Angelo Orsoni founded the internationally renowned company that still bears his name.
Oro 1 and Oro 2, 1200 x 2400 mm
When Lucio, a member of the fourth generation, was fourteen he was already making mosaics and began to exhibit them through his school, the local State Institute of Art as he did on later on other occasions, including the prestigious Venice Biennale.
After studying at the Academy of fine arts he joined the family business and was sent to England to help with the neo-Byzantine mosaic installation in the catholic Westminster Cathedral, but his own mosaics were already basically abstract and experimental.
Golden Tower Renaissance n. 7, 605 x 605 mm
From Golden Tower Renaissance exhibition
His early work acted as a catalyst that helped Italian mosaic emerge from a long period of uninspired convention. He was to become one of the subtlest masters in the long history of mosaic. Through profound thought the distillation of his art form lead him to become the foremost purist of mosaic and certainly one of the worlds’ best and most important modern artists in this field.
Lucio’s work is progressive and traditionalist at the same time. His style is directly based on the oldest principles of two-dimensional design, separate and juxtaposed tesserae of the same or different colours; the directional lines of rows of tesserae and the interstices between them.
Gold Mosaic Chapel
Sangiacomo Family, Borlasca Italy
Mane Nobiscum Domine Quia Vesperascit, 1200 x 1200 mm each panel.
Opulent functionality.
Mosaics for interiors. Domus Orsoni, Venice.
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